lower vs nether

lower

verb
  • To bring down; to humble 

  • To decrease in value, amount, etc. 

  • To reduce operations to single machine instructions, as part of compilation of a program. 

  • To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of 

  • (lower oneself) To humble oneself; to do something one considers to be beneath one's dignity. 

  • To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down 

  • To reduce the height of 

  • To depress as to direction 

  • to pull down 

  • To reduce (something) in value, amount, etc. 

  • To make less elevated 

  • To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease 

adj
  • bottom; more towards the bottom than the middle of an object 

  • Situated on lower ground, nearer a coast, or more southerly. 

  • older 

nether

verb
  • To bring or thrust down; bring or make low; lower; abase; humble. 

  • To shrink or huddle, as with cold; be shivery; tremble. 

  • To depreciate; disparage; undervalue. 

  • To constrict; straiten; confine; restrict; suppress; lay low; keep under; press in upon; vex; harass; oppress. 

  • To pinch or stunt with cold or hunger; check in growth; shrivel; straiten. 

adj
  • Lower; under. 

  • Lying beneath, or conceived as lying beneath, the Earth’s surface. 

noun
  • Oppression; stress; a withering or stunting influence. 

  • A trouble; a fault or dislocation in a seam of coal. 

adv
  • Down; downward. 

  • Low; low down. 

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